ODE: 'MAYEGUN WASN'T A RITUALIST.' BY AJAKAYE STRIDA.

His life was so pure as an angel,

his heart and doings so kind and unique as a new born life,

he willingly sew Shade and Kabira's gowns,

he smiled at Adunni in the kitchen

and he fulfilled taking Adunni to Mecca of Islam.

He wasn't even educated but he paid the fees

of his thirty_eight children.

His home was constructed by respect, love

and every other elements of earliest Eden.

But Mayegun how come?

All your Children run at your scary sight,

you curse them like a black wizard.

Your six months old grandchild 

cries at your presence,

like she sees a demon no adult can see.

Aye Akamara!

You eat now and it is a taboo to finish a delicious meal,

you remain little 

for your wife, children or your tenants.

Why?

When your eldest wife fell sick,

you never paid a penny,

or bought a bed upon her weak mat.

But Mayegun, how come?

Your children become your drivers after their convocation.

Not because the running animal is too delicious,

the lion enjoys the chase.

You enjoy yourself under a tree at all your houses,

those houses that tame  night screeching birds...

You build houses like mansions are nests,

and you are a bird,

akole bi eye o!

Yet you developed domestic madness when Lanre started hers,

Ile Meji got burnt like a dream

when she broke the spiritual chain,

I heard the moon and sun of Ijegamo 

crying and gossiping your misfortune.

You take Muina's handkerchief,

only because you want to clean your cap,

don't Kings have neat rags?

Your child ran mad some years ago

and you advised Yaba.

The traders under your tree heard Baba White,

he said you ought to run man once in a year

but you escaped it upon your children..

Now the Igando Police woman

has offered it to her first child

as she loves Mayegun so so much.

Mayegun wasn't a ritualist,

but now ... he is.

AJAKAYE RASHIDAT OLAMIDAYO

STRIDA_ Striking Ideas.

The bards speaks of a man who has become so different from his mild and godly ways of life, only in the chase of wealth and power. He sacrifices his family members to renew his wealth.